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Spacing Radio is the voice of Spacing, Canada's leading publication on urbanism.
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Episode 96: Toronto Election Council Races
To prepare you for the Toronto municipal election happening now until October 26, we've prepared an expert panel on the council races that stand out across the city. Matt Elliott is a Toronto Star Columnist and publisher of the City Hall Watcher newsletter, and Inori Roy is Features Editor at The...
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The Overhead: Accessible Housing
In this episode, we talk about the physical and systemic barriers facing people living with a disability who are trying to access housing in Canada. University of British Columbia Adjunct Professor Colin Phillips and Balanced Supply of Housing Research Manager Alina McKay co-authored the report...
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Episode 95: Saving Toronto
First: a little rant about Doug Ford's island airport expansion plans, which have (at least for now) been grounded. Next, the book Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How is available now. It's a collection of essays organized by themes like governance, transit, and housing. We asked public...
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The Overhead: When Policy Pauses Public Ownership
We've spoken a lot about community land trusts in this series, and it's been gaining momentum in cities and towns all over Canada. But there are some policy choices that are stalling some land trust projects. Here we bring you two cases from Vancouver, and how these barriers can be removed.…
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The Overhead: What We've Learned About Evictions
The Balanced Supply of Housing research node was formed to imagine real, working solutions to the housing crisis in Canada. But the first step to solving a problem is understanding it. We've covered many issues with this special series, but the issue we keep returning to is security of tenure (or...
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Episode 94: The Landlords
We've covered a lot of research about housing with out special series The Overhead. But on the main feed, we're bringing you two perspectives on renting in the city. Tony Irwin is President of the Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario, and he has perspective on how to build more...
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Episode 93: Everything Eglinton
To compliment the latest Eglinton-themed issue of Spacing Magazine, we begin with a celebration. Our regular transit commentators Toronto Star columnist and City Hall Watcher publisher Matt Elliott and York University Urban Geography Professor Patricia Wood return to give their review of the now...
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The Overhead: Rent Control and Rent Hikes
In Ontario, we have rent control on buildings occupied before November 15, 2018. That means the landlords for these buildings can only raise rents for current tenants once a year at a percentage or "guideline" set by the Province. If they want to raise the rent higher, they have to apply for an...
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Episode 92: Resolutions for Toronto Leadership
The October 2026 Toronto election may seem like a long way off, but intentions to run have already been declared and campaign plans are well underway. So we asked Spacing co-founder and Toronto Star columnist Shawn Micallef and community crisis worker Diana Chan McNally what we need from our...
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The Overhead: Community Land Trusts Gaining Ground
A good news story in recent years is the amount of progress Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have made in communities across the country. New CLTs are being established, and existing ones are winning by-in from various levels of government, as well as buying up land to preserve as affordable housing…
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The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing
On previous episodes of this series, we've talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It adds to the affordability crisis, and leads to eviction and displacement. In this episode, we ask two experts if it's possible to decommodify housing. To build housing that isn't simply…
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Episode 91: Talking Transit 2025
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Matt Elliott(Toronto Star columnist and publisher of the City Hall Watcher newsletter). They help…
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The Overhead: Indigenous-Led Housing
THIS EPISODE: Indigenous-led Housing What does Indigenous housing look like? Are there special forms of housing needed by Indigenous communities in particular to address specific health and community needs? And what kind of housing can be built when Indigenous people in charge of the plans? In…
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Episode 90: Bless This Urban Mess
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone's needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and dirty. In this episode, we talk to three of the co-editors of the new book Messy Cities: why we...
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Episode 89: Global Ideas for Local Placemaking
In this episode we bring you the highlights from Global Placemaking Summit which took place in March at Evergreen in Toronto. First, we drill down into the meaning to the term with some of the event organizers: Placemaking Canada's Andrew Pask, Evergreen's T.J. Maguire, and Placemaking X's Ethan...
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The Overhead: Non-Profit Housing and Gentle Density
In the federal election just passed, we heard many big ideas about how to tackle the housing crisis. And we could sure use a major effort from our new federal government. But there is also a lot of research and advocacy done about smaller-scale approaches that would have outsized impact on…
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Episode 88: Big City Mayor Takes on Canadian Housing
In this episode, with Prime Minister Mark Carney's pick of former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson as Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, we reached out to longtime urban affairs writer Frances Bula to learn about Robertson's housing legacy, and how he might approach his new job. And we speak...
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Episode 87: Building Housing With Election Planks
Episode 87: Building Housing With Election Planks by Spacing Radio
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The Overhead: The Housing Crisis in Trump's America
We can learn a lot about evictions and the housing crisis from cities in other countries, all over the world. Often, we draw comparisons to our neighbour just south of the border: the United States. Just like us, renters in the States are dealing with soaring rent prices, a lack of security of...
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The Overhead: Tracking Evictions Across Canada
Evictions are a problem for renters across the country. As we explored in the last episode: part of tackling the housing crisis requires improving "security of tenure" for the many people who rent their homes. But evictions are difficult to quantify. Many of them are not reported. And each…
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Episode 86: Lost Highways
In a snap election called ostensibly to decide which Ontario provincial party leader can take on Donald Trump, we sure have spent a lot of time talking about highways. In this episode, we speak to Emma McIntosh, reporter for The Narwhal, about the various election promises made about highways in...
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The Overhead: Security for Renters
For renters, security of tenure — the ability to stay in a home without fear of being destabilized by eviction — is essential. When you have that security, you can put down roots in your neigbhourhood for you and your family. But evictions occur all the time. They may be the result of lack of...
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Episode 85: City Accounting for Global Chaos
With Justin Trudeau stepping down as Prime Minister and the very real possibility of an federal election, Premier Doug Ford mulling over a snap provincial election, and President-elect Trump threatening a trade war, it's almost impossible to predict what 2025 will hold. And yet, Toronto and other...
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Episode 84: Two Housing Carols
This time of year, with the temperature below freezing, it feels appropriate to talk about housing. So, we're bringing you two conversations with two authors who have both recently written about that very topic. Carolyn Whitzman is the author of Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis. And...
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Future Fix: l'innovation au service des citoyens
Découvrez comment Montréal repousse les limites de l'innovation urbaine. Grâce aux témoignages de Maxime Thibault Vézina, Chef de division au Laboratoire d'innovation urbaine à la Ville de Montréal, et de Raphaël Guyard, conseiller sénior à la Maison de l'Innovation Sociale, explorez comment la...
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The Future Fix: Generation Restoration
The City of Toronto has been named a "role model city" by the United Nations Environment Program for Supporting Urban Ecosystems. It's part of an initiative the UN calls "Generation Restoration," part of their Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. To find out why Toronto has been named a role model…
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Episode 83: The War on Bikes
With Premier Doug Ford's repeated promises to rip up bike lanes in Toronto, and possibly even other Ontario cities and towns, we've decided to dive deep into why and what that might mean for the future or road safety and city planning. We have a panel discussion featuring Cycle Toronto Executive...
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The Overhead: Preserving Community
We're pleased to bring you another season of The Overhead, and we begin by checking back on a topic we've been tracking from the start: community land trusts. This time, we're focusing specifically on the "community" aspect of land trusts. We've spoken about the benefits of removing certain land...
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Episode 82: Toronto's political gridlock
This month, we respond to Doug Ford's stated plan of banning new bike lanes in Ontario municipalities and building an underground highway from Markham to Scarborough. Then we speak to environmental lawyer and cycling advocate Albert Koehl about his book Wheeling Through Toronto: a history of the...
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Episode 81: Talking Transit '24
It's been a while since we had a good, old-fashioned transit talk with friends of the show Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Matt Elliott (Toronto Star columnist and publisher of the City Hall Watcher newsletter). We talk about returning TTC…
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Episode 80: Toronto's Drone Scandal
We heard a lot about drones at the Paris Olympics, but what about in our own backyard? In this episode, Spacing's John Lorinc tells us about a piece he wrote called Eyes in the Sky, which documents the stealthy creep of the Toronto Police Service's use of drones to keep tabs on residents. Next,...
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Episode 79: Is Toronto strangled by rules?
Toronto is often accused of being over-regulated. It's a fair criticism. For example, photographer and urbanist commentator Dan Seljak tells us how he stumbled upon the small Finch Store selling espresso, fighting to stay open in the face of City zoning laws. For more of the story, and how Finch...
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Episode 78: Bike Month
It's Bike Month! It's a time we celebrate cycle culture in Toronto and surrounding cities and towns. At least officially. Despite some significant gains in cycling infrastructure, there are still a lot of people and (more troubling) politicians who'd like to run riders off the road. To put this…
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The Future FIx: Fighting Wildfires With Drones and Video Games
Wildfire season has already begun in Canada. Due to climate change, we are seeing more frequent and devastating fires. They choke the air, the decimate the landscape, and they displace people from their homes. So we have to fight them with everything we've got. Neal McLoughlin is superintendent…
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Episode 77: Spring cleaning in Toronto
With the change of the seasons, we talk about different kinds of renewal. First, Senior Editor John Lorinc talks about the special Spacing investigation into the cyber attack on the Toronto Public Library that shut the service down for months. How did it happen, and how do we make sure our public...
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The Future Fix: Dipping Into Water Data
We all know access to clean water is vital. We also know that water quality and access is jeopardized by things like pollution and drought. On the other hand, the growing frequency of powerful downpours causes stormwater issues. All that to say, the state of the water we rely on for so many thing...
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The Future Fix: Vivre en Ville à Victoriaville
Dans cet épisode, nous sommes allés dans les coulisses de la planification urbaine de Victoriaville. Nous nous sommes intéressés à la manière dont les municipalités comme Victoriaville s’y prennent pour mettre en branle des projets urbanistiques en tenant compte à la fois des paramètres...
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Episode 76: Time's Running out for Accessible Ontario
In 2005, Ontario passed the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), which made accessibility for all public establishments a legal requirement by 2025. That goal won't be met, unfortunately. To tell us about the progress that was made because of the legislation, and what still...
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Episode 75: What Does Change Cost?
With the Toronto budget about to be voted on shortly, we talk to crisis worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally about what the City needs to invest to help refugees and other unhoused people, whey the federal government needs to step up, and why the police don't need another big…
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Episode 74: 20 Years of Spacing
Spacing is celebrating it's 20th Anniversary. To celebrate, we talk to publisher Matthew Blackett and senior editor Dylan Reid about how the magazine came together, the latest issue and anniversary book The Big Book of Spacing, and our special exhibit at the Urbanspace Gallery. And, at the same...
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The Future Fix: Preventing Extreme Heat Disaster
With climate change leading to more frequent and more extreme climate events, predicting the next disaster and planning for it is essential. In many areas of the country, that means using data to anticipate extreme heat events, and give communities time to prepare. Dr. Ryan Reynolds is the...
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The Future Fix: Ending Energy Poverty
Many people across the country struggle to make ends meet. In many cases, that means they experience energy poverty: they can't afford to use energy when they need to, if at all. At the same time, we are trying to address climate change and become more resilient. What if we could address both...
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The Overhead: Women and Children Fleeing Violence
Women and children experiencing violence need housing options to be able to start a new life free of abuse, survive, and support themselves. But housing options that suit their particular situation and needs are often limited, due to the housing crisis, as well as a lack of appropriate services....
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The Future Fix: Lac-Mégantic: a model of resilience
Dans cet épisode, on découvre comment la ville de Lac-Mégantic, après avoir vécu le pire, s’est reconstruite pour devenir une meilleure version d’elle-même. En juillet 2013, un train de cargaison qui transportait du pétrole a pris feu, déraillé et explosé en plein milieu de la ville de...
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Episode 73: Love Park and Love Letters
We meet Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic in the new Love Park on Toronto's waterfront, to talk about good public space design, bad maintenance practices, and the legacy of legendary landscape architect Claude Cormier. We talk to playwright Michael Healey about "The Master Plan," a...
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The Overhead: Community Land Trusts
Last season, we talked to a group of people from the Kensington Market Community Land Trust (KMCLT) in Toronto as part of a range of options for non-market housing. Over a year later, we check in with the state of land trusts across the country: where are they, what are their impact, and what do...
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Episode 72: From Leipzig With Love
This Spring, Spacing Radio had the opportunity to take the show on the road to the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany. Now that the whole "who will be the mayor of Toronto" thing is settled, we bring you some highlights from the Forum. Heather Thompson, CEO of the Institute for...
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The Overhead: The Financialization of a Housing Crisis
The days of the "mom-and-pop" landlord are largely behind us. Now, housing units are being snapped up or developed by large corporate entities and private equity firms. It can be hard to figure out who actually owns a building. Homes being treated like major sources of capital, instead of places...
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Episode 71: Toronto's Next Mayor and the job ahead
The June 26th mayoral by-election is coming up fast. We've seen plenty of debate, a crowded field of candidates, and increased voter engagement. What's next? Spacing senior editor John Lorinc, Toronto Star city hall reporter Alyshah Hasham, and Ontario reporter for The Narwhal Fatima Syed join us...
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The Overhead: Evictions
Evictions can completely upend your life. At best, you have to begin the search for a new home in an increasingly expensive and competitive housing market. At worst, you can't find an affordable replacement. It's a scary situation, even in the best circumstances. In this episode, we get into why...
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